La Hollande
A late nineteenth-century French art survey of Dutch painting, written by Georges Lafenestre and Eugène Richtenberger and published in Paris by the Société française d'éditions d'art for art readers. The two pictures are ornate handwritten signatures in flourished script, one reading 'Ibijlert fe' and another 'Guill. mo van Helst 1671', which show how painters' names were calligraphed and dated on canvases. A designer could take from them the swash capitals, looping tails and underlined dates typical of seventeenth-century Dutch artist signatures.
